All editions of the event have been hosted in North American cities, with 35 in the United States and two in Canada.
In 2016, WrestleMania 32 surpassed WrestleMania III as the highest-attended professional wrestling event ever held in America, with 101,763 fans in attendance at AT&T Stadium, although the company revealed that attendance figures are manipulated for marketing purposes through investor calls. The record stood until February 14, 2010, when the 2010 NBA All-Star Game broke the indoor sporting event record with an attendance of 108,713 at Cowboys Stadium, since renamed AT&T Stadium, in Arlington, Texas. WrestleMania III in the Detroit suburb of Pontiac, Michigan was the highest-attended indoor sports event in the world, with 93,173 fans in attendance. The first WrestleMania was held in Madison Square Garden in New York City the 10th and 20th editions were also held there. T, Alice Cooper, Lawrence Taylor, Pamela Anderson, Mike Tyson, Donald Trump, Floyd Mayweather Jr., Pete Rose, Burt Reynolds, Donnie Wahlberg, Mickey Rourke, Snoop Dogg, Sean "Diddy" Combs, Kid Rock, Fred Durst, Ozzy Osbourne, Ronda Rousey, Rob Gronkowski, Shaquille O'Neal, and Bad Bunny have participated or made special appearances within the events, with Rousey herself later becoming a WWE wrestler. Celebrities such as Aretha Franklin, Cyndi Lauper, Muhammad Ali, Mr. The annual event has facilitated the rise to stardom of several top WWE wrestlers. The widespread success of WrestleMania helped transform professional wrestling. WrestleMania was conceptualized by WWE chairman Vince McMahon and named by ring announcer and WWE Hall of Famer Howard Finkel. The event has also been available to stream through the WWE Network since 2014 and Peacock since 2021. With the exception of WrestleMania 36 in 2020, the event is shown live through pay-per-view (PPV) the 36th event was the first major professional wrestling event to be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is the most successful and longest-running professional wrestling series in history. Since premiering in 1985, 36 editions followed, most recently in Tampa, Florida, on April 10 and 11, 2021. WrestleMania is a professional wrestling event held annually between mid-March and mid-April by WWE, the world's largest professional wrestling promotion. "The Greatest Spectacle in Sports Entertainment" The standard WrestleMania logo each event uses a variation of the logo to match the theme of that year's event